John Irving and cultural mourning
By: Bouchra Belgaid
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780739137932
Subjects: Narcissism in literature; Literature and society; Postmodernism (Literature); Grief in literature; History; Criticism and interpretation; Political and social views
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-186) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Postmodernism or the literature of exhaustion; title: The sixties: years of throwing off inhibitions; title: Irving's family romances; title: Irving and narcissism; title: Mourning and grief in Irving's fiction; title: Epilogue. The fourth hand and groping toward self-redemption.